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Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki said Thursday he believed Iraqi forces would be ready by June 2007 to take full control of security in Iraq, an issue on which he pressed President Bush during their meeting in Amman, Jordan.
The search for a witness to a fatal shooting by police intensified with the arrests of four people who have provided clues about the mysterious man's identity, a law enforcement official said.
The Bush administration is unlikely to allow the incoming Democratic majority in Congress to learn details about its domestic spying program and interrogation policy, a Republican senator said. Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Arlen Specter of
The City of Amsterdam said Thursday it is shutting down nearly one-third of the 350 prostitution "windows" in the city's famed red light district as part of a crackdown on crime in the area.
Without notifying the public, federal agents for the past four years have assigned millions of international travelers, including Americans, computer-generated scores rating the risk they pose of being terrorists or criminals.
An extremely rare and well-preserved dinosaur nest containing fossil eggs with the embryos exposed goes up for auction this weekend, but at least one scientist is demanding the artifact be returned to a museum.
A volcano avalanche in Sicily 8,000 years ago triggered a devastating tsunami taller than a 10-story building that spread across the entire Mediterranean Sea, slamming into the shores of three continents in only a few hours.
Oil prices rose, hitting a two-month high, after the government said supplies of distillates and gasoline showed a surprise decline and cold weather looked set to bear down on the U.S. Northeast, the world's largest home heating oil market.
The 46-year-old schoolteacher tried to reassure his family that he would return safely. But his life was over, he was part-disembowelled and then torn apart with his arms and legs tied to motorbikes, the remains put on display as a warning to others
The world's top spy chiefs - including the heads of the CIA and British, Australian and Canadian agencies - have been meeting in secret this week in New Zealand. The elite Anglo-Saxon group is known as Echelon.
A startling discovery of 70,000-year-old artifacts and a python's head carved of stone appears to represent the first known human rituals. Scientists had thought human intelligence had not evolved the capacity to perform group rituals until pe
Humans must colonize planets in other solar systems traveling there using "Star Trek"-style propulsion or face extinction, renowned British cosmologist Stephen Hawking said.
Google's chief executive offered some advice to Republicans looking ahead to the 2008 presidential contest: make better use of the Internet's electioneering power if you want to win next time. "The ones that take advantage of this mos
Some law enforcement experts say the technology is shedding light on a long-standing if uncomfortable fact of life: Police frequently have to use force. And society and the law expect them to do so.
An Atlanta narcotics officer tied to last week's deadly drug raid on a elderly woman's home was the subject of a 2002 lawsuit that said he "fabricated" the events that led to his head-on traffic collision with a motorcyclist.
Internal data such as information concerning US military operations in Iraq have recently been leaked to the Internet from a privately owned computer of an Air Self-Defense Force member loaded with a file sharing software, ASDF investigations have sh
Doctors treating former Russian Prime Minister Yegor Gaidar believed he was poisoned, an aide said Thursday. Gaidar, 50, who served briefly as prime minister in the 1990's under President Boris Yeltsin and is one of the leaders of the liberal op
(No idea on topic) Bees have been trained to sniff out explosives, according to scientists at a US weapons laboratory, in a project they say could have far-reaching applications in national security and the war in Iraq.
Fly into the US for a quick visit from a foreign country and you'll have your picture and fingerprints taken and your passport examined so officials can make sure you are who you say you are. Fly home and chances are no one will even know.
Japanese authorities decided to start chipping school children in one primary school in Osaka a couple of years ago. The kids clothes and bags were fitted with RFID tags with readers installed in school gates and other key locations
The Registerd Traveler program, which was just cleared for deployment in the nation's airports, has nothing to do with security and is simply a way to pay $100 to cut to the front of the line. While $28 out of the appro. $100 fee goes to a secur
Arizona State University has annonced it will pay full tuition for all student admitted from within the state whose families make less than $25,000 a year. (Listen up people, ain't no such thing as a free lunch. Someone pays sooner or later)
A record 7 million people - or one in every 32 American adults - were behind bars, on probation or on parole by the end of last year, according to the Justice Department. Of those, 2.2 million were in prison or jail, an increase of 2.7 percent over
Using advanced new imaging techniques, scientists have reconstructed the gear structure of the mysterious Antikythera mechanism—one of the world's oldest computers.
Common drugs used to treat cancer patients may do more harm than good by killing healthy brain cells, a research study released Wednesday shows.
Although red wines are long known to have heart-healthy properties, the researchers found that the wines which in particular have higher levels of "oligomeric procyanidins" are more potent.
Mexico's President elect, Felipe Calderon, is about to take over tomorrow and the left wing opposition party, PRD, has violently invaded the Congress to avoid this act which is a constitutional mandate.
The Kraft product contains modified food starch, coconut and soybean oils, corn syrup and food coloring. It is less than 2 percent avocado, which in traditional recipes is the main ingredient of the Mexican dish.
What are the options for the US in Iraq? While President Bush says that he is open to new ideas, the reality is that, with American forces in an increasingly bloody conflict, the options are limited.
1. The U.S. is a buffer against more violence. This is perhaps the most resilient conjecture that has no basis in fact.
